Tag: Singapore

• Saturday, December 9th 2023 - 11:00 UTC

  Singapore signs free trade agreement with Mercosur at the Rio summit

  

  The city-state of Singapore and a leading business and financial hub in Asia finally signed a free trade agreement with Mercosur during the South American countries summit held in Rio do Janeiro. It is Mercosur's first deal with a Southeast Asian nation.

• Saturday, August 5th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  Singapore interested in sealing trade accord with Mercosur and in the Port of Santos concession

  

  The government of city-state Singapore, in Southeast Asia, intends to participate in the concession process for Brazil's largest terminal, the Port of Santos (SP), as part of the greater trade negotiation with the Mercosur block.

• Monday, February 13th 2023 - 10:03 UTC

  Mercosur-Singapore free trade agreement coming up?

  

  Under Argentina's pro-tempore presidency, Mercosur will try to clinch a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Singapore, according to Palacio San Martín (Foreign Ministry) sources quoted by BAE Negocios. The Alberto Fernández administration is particularly eager to show results, the report also said.

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 21:20 UTC

  Uruguay refuses to sign Mercosur Summit's joint statement

  

  The Government of Uruguay Thursday refrained from signing the joint document penned at the Mercosur Summit in Asunción, on the grounds that it lacked any mention of flexibilization, which the Luis Lacalle Pou administration needs to broker one-on-one deals with other blocs or countries or blocs of the block.

• Sunday, February 13th 2022 - 14:23 UTC

  Eighty years since the “worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history”

  

  This month marks 80 years since Singapore, a British colony with significant strategic importance was invaded and subsequently captured by the Empire of Japan. Its loss represented the lowest point of the war in the Far East and was a matter Prime Minister Winston Churchill never really got over.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 20:15 UTC

  Singapore signs treaty to join Pacific Alliance as an associated state

  

  The Asian nation of Singapore Wednesday became the first country to join the Pacific Alliance as an Associated State to the group made up of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Singapore approves world's first clean meat: lab-grown chicken meat

  

  Singapore has given regulatory approval for the world’s first “clean meat” that does not come from slaughtered animals. The decision paves the way for San Francisco-based startup Eat Just to sell lab-grown chicken meat.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  Singapore rig builder under graft investigation in Brazil's “car wash” operation

  

  Rig builder Sembcorp Marine said on Wednesday that authorities had executed a search warrant on its shipyard in Brazil as part of an ongoing graft investigation, sending its shares sharply lower.

• Monday, June 3rd 2019 - 08:51 UTC

  China ready to fight the US on trade, but the door still open for talks, Beijing defense minister says

  

  China is ready to fight the US on trade but the door is still open for talks, the country's defense minister said on Sunday. “On the trade friction started by the US: if the US wants to talk, we will keep the door open. If they want to fight, we are ready,” General Wei Fenghe told an international security dialogue in Singapore.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 06:36 UTC

  Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris, world's most expensive cities according to EIU

  

  Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris have been named the world’s most expensive cities for expatriates to live in, according to a survey of 133 cities released on Tuesday by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).